"My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything."
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
1846 – 1916
polnischer Schriftsteller
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